The Pharmaceutical Opinion enables the pharmacist to play a more complete and more precise role that benefits health care professionals involved with the patient.

This enables them to finally obtain feedback on their participation, as well as concrete proposals concerning an individual situation, in a world saturated with information in which therapies and behaviour are increasingly more complex.

In addition, the Pharmaceutical Opinion is not a tool for policing prescriptions : it is subjected to professional secrecy and its creation has no effect on the freedom of exercising the medical profession.

Far from calling into question their work as therapists, the Pharmaceutical Opinion on the contrary supports physicians : it provides information that is useful for the more precise adaptation of care to individual situations according to the strictly pharmaceutical criteria of security, quality, efficacy, comfort and health care economy.

The pharmacist, once a simple supplier, has now become a genuine partner as a health professional. He can be questioned by prescribing physicians on the characteristics of products and the conditions of their use, according to different clinical situations. This role enables him to be a more useful and active member of networks.

These considerations will be crucial in tomorrow's health care system, marked by the progress of health care institutions, procedures and products, health insurance, as well as by the requirements to evaluate and optimise acts.